Fair and festivals are an integral part of our folk culture. Not much effort has been made to make a systematic study of the folk culture of Punjab. This book fulfills this vacuum. This book lists the major fairs of Punjab and traces origin and development through the ages unto the present time. Author's research has shown that the pre-independence Punjab celebrated 7000 melas. The 1961 census lists 4,561 fairs in Indian Punjab. After the formation of Haryana, ...
